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Libro Miscelanea 54.Indb revista de estudios ingleses y norteamericanos miscelánea vol. 54 Volumen de literatura, 2016 cine y estudios culturales Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies Vol. 54 · 2016 se publica con la ayuda económica del Departamento de (Volumen de literatura, cine y estudios culturales) Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras y del Vicerrectorado de Política Científica de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Dirección, coordinación, tratamiento de textos y edición electrónica (vol. 54): Publicación semestral (2 vols. al año) del Departamento Sonia Baelo Allué de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Published twice a year by the Department of Editora de reseñas: English and German Philology, University of Zaragoza, Beatriz Oria Gómez Spain. 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Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Javier Valenzuela Universidad de La Rioja Universidad de Murcia Manuela Ruiz Pardos Ignacio Vázquez Orta Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad de Zaragoza Dora Sales Salvador Rafael Vélez Núñez Universidad Jaume I, Castellón Universidad de Cádiz Lena Steveker Rachel Whittaker University of Saarland Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Juan Antonio Suárez Sánchez Francisco Yus Ramos Universidad de Murcia Universidad de Alicante Rubén Valdés Miyares Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terrán Universidad de Oviedo Universidad Pompeu Fabra 7 table of contents IN MEMORIAM Benno Hübner (1931-2016) Articles 17 33 MAIKA AIRA GALLARDO FRANCISCO 8 (Universidad de Santiago COLLADO-RODRÍGUEZ de Compostela) (Universidad de Zaragoza) “‘You Gotta Admit You Had “Approaching the Scientific It Comin to You’: Trauma, Method in Literary Studies: Gender Violence and Female On the Notions of Bonding in Marsha Framework and Method Norman’s Getting Out” (and Their Application to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five)” 51 69 93 ANA FERNÁNDEZ- LI-HSION AMANDA LIU SIDONÍ LÓPEZ CAPARRÓS TURINA (Chia Nan University of (Universidad Internacional (Universitat de València) Pharmacy and Science, de La Rioja) and Taiwan) HANANE BENALI “Fool for Love y la estirpe (American University of the de los fantaseadores en el “Take the Law into Your Middle East, Kuwait) teatro de Sam Shepard” Own Hands: Modernist and Detective Fiction in William “Native American Theater: Faulkner’s Intruder in the A Concise History” Dust and Light in August” Articles Reviews 113 137 143 MARÍA ISABEL SILVIA PILAR CASTRO TIMOTHY CLARK ROMERO RUIZ BORREGO AND MARÍA (Universidad de Málaga) ISABEL ROMERO RUIZ, EDS. Ecocriticism on the Edge. The Anthropocene as a “Frederick W. Lowndes, Identities on the Move: Threshold Concept. London: MRCSE and Surgeon to the Contemporary Bloomsbury, 2015. Liverpool Lock Hospital: Representations of New Prostitution and Venereal Sexualities and Gender (by Felicity Hand, Disease in the 1880s” Identities. Lanham and Universitat Autònoma de London: Lexington Books, 2015. Barcelona) (by Mónica Calvo Pascual, Universidad de Zaragoza) 147 151 155 GIUSEPPE EPISCOPO, ED. ELENA OLIETE-ALDEA, ELENA OLIETE-ALDEA BEATRIZ ORIA, AND JUAN 9 Metahistorical Narratives A. TARANCÓN, EDS. Hybrid Heritage on Screen: and Scientific Metafictions: The ‘Raj Revival’ in the A Critical Insight into the Global Genres, Local Films. Thatcher Era. London: Twentieth-Century Poetics. The Transnational Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Cronopio: Napoli, 2015. Dimension of Spanish (by Rosa M. García-Periago, Cinema. London: (by María Ferrández San Bloomsbury, 2016. Universidad de Murcia) Miguel, Universidad de Zaragoza) (by María M. Carrión, Emory University) 159 165 ÁNGEL-LUIS PUJANTE AND IVÁN VILLARMEA JUAN F. CERDÁ, EDS. ÁLVAREZ Shakespeare en España: Documenting Cityscapes. Bibliografía bilingüe anotada Urban Change in / Shakespeare in Spain: An Contemporary Non-Fiction Annotated Bilingual Bibliography. Murcia: Ediciones Film. New York: Columbia de la Universidad de Murcia; University Press, 2015. Granada: Editorial (by Eduardo Barros Grela, Universidad de Granada, 2014. Universidade da Coruña) (by Jesús Tronch, Universitat de València) Abstracts Notes for contributors Acknowledgements 171 181 191 10 IN MEMORIAM Benno Hübner (1931-2016) 11 Benno believed in many things: friendship, dialogue, tedium, leisure, the goodness of mankind
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